Software Testing Interview Questions

Q: 1 Can you give me more information on software QA/testing, from a tester’s point of view?
A: Yes, I can. You can visit my web site, and on pages robdavispe.com/free and robdavispe.com/free2 you can find answers to many questions on software QA, documentation, and [...]

Q: 1 Should I take a course in manual testing?
A: Yes, you want to consider taking a course in manual testing. Why? Because learning how to perform manual testing is an important part of one’s education. Unless you have a significant personal reason for not taking a [...]

Q: 1 What software tools are in demand these days?
A: There is no good answer to this question. The answer to this question can and will change from day to day. What is in demand today, is not necessarily in demand tomorrow.
To give you some recent [...]

Q: 1 What is the role of the test engineer?
A: We, test engineers, speed up the work of the development staff, and reduce the risk of your company’s legal liability.
We also give your company the evidence that the software is correct and operates properly.
We, test engineers, [...]

Q: 1 What is alpha testing?
A: Alpha testing is final testing before the software is released to the general public. First, (and this is called the first phase of alpha testing), the software is tested by in-house developers. They use either debugger software, or [...]

Q: 1 What testing approaches can you tell me about?
A: Each of the followings represents a different testing approach: black box testing, white box testing, unit testing, incremental testing, integration testing, functional testing, system testing, end-to-end testing, sanity testing, regression testing, acceptance testing, load testing, performance testing, usability [...]

What is SEI? CMM? CMMI? ISO? IEEE? ANSI? Will it help?

SEI = ‘Software Engineering Institute’ at Carnegie-Mellon University; initiated by the U.S. Defense Department to help improve software development processes.
CMM = ‘Capability Maturity Model’, now called the CMMI (’Capability Maturity Model Integration’), developed by the SEI. It’s a model of 5 [...]